Seeking Homo Economicus: The Canadian State and the Strange Story of the Business Immigration Program

By D. Ley. 2003

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EVALUATION OF THE GENERAL SKILLED MIGRATION CATEGORIES (2006, methodology): “Finally, David Ley (2003) has used the IMDB to assess the economic contributions of Business Class immigrants and concludes that either the data under-represents their incomes, or that their incomes are much lower than would be expected given their pre-migration success.”
The State, Land System, and Land Development Processes in Contemporary China (2005, background): “…practical impotency . . . . State analysis should also interpret the internal institutional worlds of government, where competing jurisdictional agendas in addressing external management problems provoke internal diversity and a dynamic, conflictual, and always incomplete project’’ (Ley 2003, 427).”
Explaining Variations in Business Performance Among Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Canada (2006, background): “Some 30 countries run business immigration programmes, indicating the resolve of the state to play actively in the globalisation game and attract footloose skilled and entrepreneurial migrants who will prime economic development in a new land in return for citizenship rights (Ley 2003).”